28.5159, Calls: Cog Sci, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing/Portugal

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Subject: 28.5159, Calls: Cog Sci, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing/Portugal

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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:30:24
From: Scott Seyfarth [seyfarth.2 at osu.edu]
Subject: The Role of Predictability in Shaping Sound Systems

 
Full Title: The Role of Predictability in Shaping Sound Systems 

Date: 23-Jun-2018 - 23-Jun-2018
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Scott Seyfarth
Meeting Email: seyfarth.2 at osu.edu
Web Site: http://labphon16.labphon.org/se-05.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

LabPhon 16 satellite workshop: The role of predictability in shaping human
sound systems

Message-oriented accounts of phonetic and phonological variation propose that
speakers expend resources in order to increase phonetic robustness when their
intended message is unpredictable. Within this general framework,
predictability and resource cost are operationalized in diverse and sometimes
imprecise ways. This workshop has two themed sessions, with presentations on
each theme followed by roundtable discussions. The first session addresses how
predictability can be assessed, and in particular how different formulations
lead to different quantifiable expectations about communicative behavior and
phonological patterns. The second session addresses how resource cost can be
defined using explicit psychological, phonological, and physiological
measures.


Call for Papers:

Message-oriented accounts of phonetic and phonological variation propose that
speakers expend resources in order to increase phonetic robustness when their
intended message is unpredictable (e.g., Hall et al., 2016; see also Lindblom,
1990; Aylett & Turk, 2004; Stevens & Keyser, 2006). Within this general
framework, ''predictability'' and ''resource cost'' are operationalized in
diverse and sometimes imprecise ways. The goal of this workshop is to
encourage discussion and idea exchange that lead to shared understandings of
the concepts of predictability and cost in phonological research.

The workshop will be organized around two themed roundtables, which are each
preceded by 15-minute talks that provide material for broader discussion of
the theme. The first session addresses how predictability can be assessed, and
the second session addresses how resource cost can be defined using explicit
psychological, phonological, and physiological measures. Each theme involves a
range of questions, and specific topics for the roundtable discussions will be
chosen based on the submitted abstracts.

Theme 1: Defining and measuring predictability.

How can phonological predictability be assessed? Some possibilities include:
the in-context probability of a specific phonological unit or message, the
uncertainty associated with incremental comprehension or production, and the
contrastiveness of a unit in the phonological system. How do different
measures lead to different quantifiable expectations about communicative
behavior or phonological patterns? How can different measures of
predictability be linked to specific mechanisms in speech production or
perception, and how do these measures and mechanisms interact?

Theme 2: Defining and measuring production cost.

Many communication-oriented accounts assume that speakers seek an efficient
balance between communicative robustness and production cost, but production
cost is often not quantified. What are ways of explicitly defining or
measuring phonological resource cost? Some possibilities include: indices of
cognitive load during production, planning costs or phonological/lexical
competition in speech production models, usage of attentional or memory
resources, articulatory coordination costs, and metabolic costs.

Format and schedule:

Abstracts are invited on research related to one of the themes. Abstracts may
be up to 1000 words and should contain all key methodological details. About
three abstracts per theme will be selected for oral presentations, and all
accepted abstracts will be circulated in advance of the workshop. Each
presenter is asked to prepare a 15-minute presentation (plus 5 minutes for
questions and transition) in which they explicitly contextualize their
research in the discussion topic. The presentations will be followed by a
40-minute roundtable discussion of the theme, with a break between sessions.
The workshop may include a short poster session, depending on the number of
submitted abstracts.

Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2018 (sent to contact email)
Notifications of acceptance: March 15, 2018
Workshop program announced: March 30, 2018
Workshop date: June 23, 2018 (main conference June 19-22)
Location: Universidade de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal




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